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Apr 28, 2024 · Cabul (or Kabul) is a land or city mentioned twice in the Bible: once in the Book of Joshua and once in 1 Kings. A king rejects Solomon's attempt to gift him this city, calling it "Kabul", meaning "that which does not please".
CABUL. ka'-bul (kabhul; Codex Vaticanus, Chobamasomel; Codex Alexandrinus, Chabol apo aristeron): (1) A city on the boundary between Asher and Zebulun (Joshua 19:27). It corresponds to the Chabolo of Josephus (Vita, 43, etc.), and is represented by the modern village Kabul, about nine miles Southeast of Acre.
But it is not necessary to find a meaning for the word, for it is to be considered that a city Bearing this name existed at that time and in this neighbourhood (Joshua 19:27), the site of which, in all probability, is marked by the modern Kabul, eight miles east of Accho (Robinson, 3:87, 88; Dict. Bib. 1:237; Thomson, "Land and Book," 1:281 ...
In the Lower Galilee there is an Arab village called Kabul, which obviously preserves the Biblical name. Kabul easily fits the location of the Cabul mentioned in the Bible. But no Iron Age (1200–586 B.C.) site in the vicinity had been identified by archaeologists—until our survey.
“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day.
This tribe was in North Galilee but there would be no significance in the name, if it were already that of one of the twenty cities given to Hiram. The LXX. appears to have taken כבול (Cabul) to be the same as נבול (gebul) for they render the name Ὅριον, a boundary.
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1 Kings 9:13. ESV Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day. NIV "What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day.
